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Yahai Lu is affiliated with Peking University in China, with a research focus spanning environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and engineering. Their work encompasses various subfields, including building and construction, environmental chemistry, ecology, environmental engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The primary topics addressed in their research include anaerobic digestion and biogas production, methane hydrates and related phenomena, microbial community ecology and physiology, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, plant and animal studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Yahai Lu has published research in several scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Environmental Microbiology Reports
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Yahai Lu include:

  • Abundant fungi adapt to broader environmental gradients than rare fungi in agricultural fields, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Soil multitrophic network complexity enhances the link between biodiversity and multifunctionality in agricultural systems, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Successional action of Bacteroidota and Firmicutes in decomposing straw polymers in a paddy soil, 2023, Environmental Microbiome
  • Coexistence patterns of soil methanogens are closely tied to methane generation and community assembly in rice paddies, 2021, Microbiome
  • Rare Species-Driven Diversity-Ecosystem Multifunctionality Relationships are Promoted by Stochastic Community Assembly, 2022, mBio

Yahai Lu has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Kailin Gao
  • Shuo Jiao
  • Xingxuan Xia
  • Langsha Yi
  • Wei Zhang

Best Publications

  • Balance between community assembly processes mediates species coexistence in agricultural soil microbiomes across eastern China.

    Shuo Jiao;Yunfeng Yang;Yiqin Xu;Jie Zhang

  • In situ stable isotope probing of methanogenic archaea in the rice rhizosphere

    Yahai Lu;Yahai Lu;Ralf Conrad

  • Abundant fungi adapt to broader environmental gradients than rare fungi in agricultural fields.

    Shuo Jiao;Shuo Jiao;Yahai Lu

  • Characterization of methane emissions from rice fields in Asia. III. Mitigation options and future research needs

    R. Wassmann;R. Wassmann;R. S. Lantin;H. U. Neue;L. V. Buendia

  • Carbon cycling in rice field ecosystems in the context of input, decomposition and translocation of organic materials and the fates of their end products (CO2 and CH4)

    Makoto Kimura;Jun Murase;Yahai Lu

  • Direct interspecies electron transfer accelerates syntrophic oxidation of butyrate in paddy soil enrichments

    Huijuan Li;Jiali Chang;Pengfei Liu;Li Fu

  • Soil pH and temperature regulate assembly processes of abundant and rare bacterial communities in agricultural ecosystems.

    Shuo Jiao;Yahai Lu

  • Succession of bacterial populations during plant residue decomposition in rice field soil.

    Junpeng Rui;Jingjing Peng;Yahai Lu

  • Dynamics of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Methane Emissions in a Flooded Rice Soil

    Yahai Lu;Reiner Wassmann;Heinz-Ulrich Neue;Changyong Huang

  • Soil multitrophic network complexity enhances the link between biodiversity and multifunctionality in agricultural systems.

    Shuo Jiao;Shuo Jiao;Yahai Lu;Gehong Wei

  • Life without light: microbial diversity and evidence of sulfur- and ammonium-based chemolithotrophy in Movile Cave.

    Yin Chen;Liqin Wu;Rich Boden;Alexandra Hillebrand

  • Conductive Fe3O4 Nanoparticles Accelerate Syntrophic Methane Production from Butyrate Oxidation in Two Different Lake Sediments

    Jianchao Zhang;Yahai Lu

  • Dynamics of the Methanogenic Archaeal Community during Plant Residue Decomposition in an Anoxic Rice Field Soil

    Jingjing Peng;Zhe Lü;Junpeng Rui;Yahai Lu

  • Contribution of plant-derived carbon to soil microbial biomass dynamics in a paddy rice microcosm

    Yahai Lu;Akira Watanabe;Makoto Kimura

  • Structure and activity of bacterial community inhabiting rice roots and the rhizosphere.

    Yahai Lu;Dirk Rosencrantz;Werner Liesack;Ralf Conrad

  • Core Microbiota in Agricultural Soils and Their Potential Associations with Nutrient Cycling.

    Shuo Jiao;Yiqin Xu;Jie Zhang;Xin Hao

  • Microbial mechanism for rice variety control on methane emission from rice field soil

    Ke Ma;Qiongfen Qiu;Yahai Lu

  • Detecting active methanogenic populations on rice roots using stable isotope probing

    Yahai Lu;Tillmann Lueders;Michael W. Friedrich;Ralf Conrad

  • Methane Emissions and Mitigation Options in Irrigated Rice Fields in Southeast China

    W. F. Lu;W. Chen;B. W. Duan;W. M. Guo

  • Niche differentiation of ammonia oxidizers and nitrite oxidizers in rice paddy soil.

    Xiubin Ke;Roey Angel;Yahai Lu;Ralf Conrad

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Conrad
Ralf Conrad Max Planck Society
Reiner Wassmann
Reiner Wassmann International Atomic Energy Agency
Makoto Kimura
Makoto Kimura Nagoya University
Wolf-Rainer Abraham
Wolf-Rainer Abraham Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Fusuo Zhang
Fusuo Zhang China Agricultural University
J. Colin Murrell
J. Colin Murrell University of East Anglia
Michael W. Friedrich
Michael W. Friedrich University of Bremen
Pil Joo Kim
Pil Joo Kim Gyeongsang National University
Peter Christie
Peter Christie Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fang-Jie Zhao
Fang-Jie Zhao Nanjing Agricultural University

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